CVE-2023-52892

unknown
Published 2024-06-28 · Modified 2024-06-28
CVSS v3
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS v2
VIR risk

Description

In phpseclib before 1.0.22, 2.x before 2.0.46, and 3.x before 3.0.33, some characters in Subject Alternative Name fields in TLS certificates are incorrectly allowed to have a special meaning in regular expressions (such as a + wildcard), leading to name confusion in X.509 certificate host verification.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
30%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-52892

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormfixed2.0.42-1+deb12u3
debian debianforkyfixed2.0.46-1
debian debiansidfixed2.0.46-1
debian debiantrixiefixed2.0.46-1
debian debianbullseyefixed1.0.19-3+deb11u3

Package impact

EcosystemPackageVulnerableFixed
php Packagistphpseclib/phpseclib<1.0.221.0.22
php Packagistphpseclib/phpseclib>=2.0.0,<2.0.462.0.46
php Packagistphpseclib/phpseclib>=3.0.0,<3.0.333.0.33

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.